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Planar Fashionable Dwarves
Topic Started: Jun 27 2013, 01:45 AM (227 Views)
Er_Nano_Infame
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so, i have always saw not many dwarves on scod, i know of course of some, and at times there's a very few around even uptoday, still there seems not to be a spread dwarven culture or background to support a valiant presence of them, either in scod, or planescape in general, duno.

so, is just ignorance of lore, or difficult of design, or it lacks a planar vision about them, or simply they are disliked, or they don't get enough ground where to dig into in sigil?

anyone has suggestions and hints about this? or advices about how to design nice planar/planeswalker dwarves or how to give them proper support in sigil?
Maewind:''That's still plant-hating! That makes you a plant racist!''

Lucelle Vand'hovar: ''Miss Maewind, i assure you, the plants started this conflict.''

Nienna: ''Razorvine is hardly a plant, in her defense.''

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Part of the problem is that they have very few customization options, and they aren't as powerful a race as the races that use the half-orc model, which people overlook their lack of options due to how powerful some of them are. If there were more customization options, or just more dwarf races that are useful, they'd get more use, though neither of them are easy solutions.
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I have no problem playing races such as dwarves due to stats/racial bonuses. Dwarves are eminently playable.

The main problem is playing a dwarf that after 5 mins of RP doesn't become a sterotypical gruff beer swilling axe-wielding maniac with a scottish accent.

I did try once, but fell into this trap within minutes.
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Powderhorn
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Even in play by post RP, I've played dwarves that fell into the same trap, and immediately became boring. A failure on my own part, certainly, but the truth none the less.
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... I find it more interesting that other people expect you to play a dwarf like that. :P

Once played a softspoken, tea drinking dwarf following Ilmater on another server and it was quite fun.

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Er_Nano_Infame
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lol, ok, so i'll place ''beer'' at the first place for the matter i highlighted XD

anything else, anyone?

-edit- @ selebius: darn, you anticipated my post of 1 minute!
Maewind:''That's still plant-hating! That makes you a plant racist!''

Lucelle Vand'hovar: ''Miss Maewind, i assure you, the plants started this conflict.''

Nienna: ''Razorvine is hardly a plant, in her defense.''

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Och laddie, everyone knows tha' dwarves drink pints o' stout, nay yer wee li'l piss beer!
You would think rooting for Darwin in EMS would be tricky.

It's not.
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Er_Nano_Infame
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uhmmm, okay, let's try this: which planes dwarves (whatever the subrace is) can come from? so it is not just ''primes''
Maewind:''That's still plant-hating! That makes you a plant racist!''

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Nienna: ''Razorvine is hardly a plant, in her defense.''

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Presumably all? I mean, everyone seems to have a mythos for the stouter folk, and, I suspect it's because dwarfism is an actual medical condition. So... you have these shorter, stockier looking people you really can't explain otherwise, and, for want of medical knowledge at the time, you get a new myth!

(I also have a theory about elves being based around Marfan's Syndrome)

Edit: I meant to add - I once read an idea about a place where dwarves were a nomadic, desert race. I think that'd be a fun one to RP.
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The dwarfish Pantheon is at home on Celestia.

Example:

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MoTP , pg 135
Erackinor: The slopes of Solania are deeply tunneled
with a vast dwarven mansion called Erackinor. None but
dwarves and dwarven petitioners are allowed within.
Those who enter and return speak in hushed tones of
stonework and craftsmanship that far surpasses anything
a dwarf might have seen on the Material Plane.
When Moradin fires up the deep Soul Forges below
the roots of Mount Celestia, all the halls rush with the
noise of the bellows. Dwarven clerics say Moradin uses
the Soul Forges to temper the spirits of his people and
their weapons. The forges may have other uses as well.
The armories of Erackinor are second to none, and the
combat-veteran dwarves and dwarven petitioners that fill
Erackinor’s halls make the mansion nigh impregnable.


That said I feel dwarves are more at home at the lawful outer planes according to their often rather lawful nature.

I can also see them get along well with the lawful denizens of the inner planes like Dao (earth) and Efreeti (fire).
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Most Primes have dwarves, although there are some variations. Athas comes to mind as a plane that has non-typical dwarves (and just about every race for that matter... cannibal halflings anyone?).

As for outer planes, they can be found on quite a few. Lawful planes for sure, but also there are Dwarves on the Ysgardian plane of Nidavellir (something that doesn't quite follow original Norse mythology as Norse Dwarves (Dverger) are closer to humans or elf sometimes being associated with the Dark Elves ( Svartalfar).
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Dirty/smelly, xenophopic, hairy, stubborn, hate of pointy ears, smithing, mines and tough... all the things that makes a dwarf, now that you know them, do something that's exactly opposite and make it dwarf species and you'll have your out of the norm dwarf :P

Or if you want something more exotic, look up Derros.
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Brogar is happy to be an oddity. This happiness he gets vicariously through me.

Identifying with character too much? Maybe.

But fun nonetheless :D

EDIT

BTW, might request a Derro. Thanx Mr. O for the idea. Looks very weird, yet overtly playable.
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